Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Which of the following accurately states the number of pomegranate seeds that remained in the mouth of Proserpina?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pomegranate seeds · What happens: follow, state, remain · To what, where: number, mouth

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 seeds	case
10	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeds	compound
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 remained	nsubj
13	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seeds	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mouth	det
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remained	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Proserpina	case
18	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mouth	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the number of pomegranate seeds		accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
3	remain	past	pomegranate seeds		the mouth of Proserpina		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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